State Of Punjab And Ors vs Jagjit Singh And Ors on 26 October, 2016
19. State of Punjab v. Jagjit Singh and
others [(2017) 1 SCC 148] was, according to us, in
a totally different context and the principle of
'equal pay for equal work' applied there, has no
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application on the facts of this case. Therein a
Full Bench of the High Court held that temporary
employees were not entitled to the minimum of
regular pay scales, merely for reason of work
carried out being similar to that of regular
employees. The Hon'ble Supreme Court held that it
is fallacious to determine artificial parameters to
deny fruits of labour and an employee engaged for
the same work cannot be paid less than another, who
performs the same duties and responsibilities,
especially by a welfare State. Such a contingency
of discrimination of pay as between employees, does
not arise herein at all.